IMAP email hosting for me domain?

jfriend

I have my own domain (through network solutions), but the company that is hosting the email for it (Yahoo small business) is reallly bad so I need to switch. I'm looking for a new email provider and hoping for some suggestions. This is what I'm looking for:

• POP support
• IMAP support with folders and reasonable rates for ~200MB of email
• Web access so you can check your email from the web when not on one of your regular computers
• Multiple mailboxes (5-10)
• "Anyone" support so that I can direct all email to an unidentified email address to one particular mailbox
• Very good uptime
• Will support my custom domain name

Other things I'd like, but don't have to have:

• Anti-spam filtering
• Server-side filters
• Some web hosting space for the same domain name

Anyone have any ideas for IMAP email hosting?

Andy

Godaddy? I really like 'em.

I was on Register.com, moving to godaddy was a cinch. They have awesome support, too.

jfriend

Does godaddy support IMAP?

Andy wrote:

Godaddy? I really like 'em.

I was on Register.com, moving to godaddy was a cinch. They have awesome support, too.

I can't find IMAP support at godaddy. It just talks about POP3. Do you know if they support IMAP?

Anyone have an opinion of DreamHost? They do support POP3, IMAP and Web access to email.

dangin

i use hostgator; they do the trick for me. you can configure spamassassin in their cpanel gui but it's not that hot IMO. i have the mail redirected to my gmail account and then have the gmail account resend aliased with my personal domain. the gmail spam filter works great, IMO.

Andy

jfriend wrote:

I can't find IMAP support at godaddy. It just talks about POP3. Do you know if they support IMAP?

Anyone have an opinion of DreamHost? They do support POP3, IMAP and Web access to email.

Call them, they're really good at answering

scottV

I really like google apps, they don't have imap support but will migrate from an imap server supposedly pretty easily.

jfriend

f00sion wrote:

I really like google apps, they don't have imap support but will migrate from an imap server supposedly pretty easily.

If Google Apps had IMAP, I'd probably go that way. As it turns out imap.gmail.com is a live server (you can ping it) so maybe it's being worked on.

jfriend

Andy wrote:

Call them, they're really good at answering

I called Godaddy. No IMAP support, only POP3.

i_worship_the_King

If you have an old PC (or buy one for $25) load up linux & squirrelmail. Elegant, reliable, FAST, and you have infantessimal control over it. Download a linux live CD with it on it and give it a whirl, if you don't like it - restart!:D

jfriend

i_worship_the_King wrote:

If you have an old PC (or buy one for $25) load up linux & squirrelmail. Elegant, reliable, FAST, and you have infantessimal control over it. Download a linux live CD with it on it and give it a whirl, if you don't like it - restart!:D

I'm not sure how this helps me. Squirrelmail looks like a web interface for an existing IMAP mailbox. I'm looking for a provider of the IMAP mailbox.

i_worship_the_King

squirrelmail is the whole deal. SMTP server, IMAP backend, POP3 backend, it even serves up Novell mail. It's an e-mail server, not merely an interface. It also uses plugin's for spam filtering and about anything else you can think of. Good Stuff

jfriend

i_worship_the_King wrote:

squirrelmail is the whole deal. SMTP server, IMAP backend, POP3 backend, it even serves up Novell mail. It's an e-mail server, not merely an interface. It also uses plugin's for spam filtering and about anything else you can think of. Good Stuff

Thanks, but I'm not interested in running my own infrastructure out of my house for SMTP and IMAP. I've considered that before.

Someone on dpreview suggested http://www.fastmail.fm/ and so far it looks like exactly what I need. I've already set up a free account with full IMAP access that's working great so far.

BradfordBenn

I am very happy with HostMySite.com I have five domains with them. They have Imap, it just needs to be turned on. It can either be self served or through their customer support.

-=Brad

Pupator

I used mydomain.com in the past. I wasn't thirlled with their mailserver uptime, but the services were good and priced right.

Now I use bluehost.com for all my hosting and e-mail (including IMAP). Great prices, but I don't think you can buy "only" e-mail support from them. If you're looking for a new all-around host give them a try.

jfriend

jfriend wrote:

I have my own domain (through network solutions), but the company that is hosting the email for it (Yahoo small business) is reallly bad so I need to switch. I'm looking for a new email provider and hoping for some suggestions. This is what I'm looking for:

• POP support
• IMAP support with folders and reasonable rates for ~200MB of email
• Web access so you can check your email from the web when not on one of your regular computers
• Multiple mailboxes (5-10)
• "Anyone" support so that I can direct all email to an unidentified email address to one particular mailbox
• Very good uptime
• Will support my custom domain name

Other things I'd like, but don't have to have:

• Anti-spam filtering
• Server-side filters
• Some web hosting space for the same domain name

Anyone have any ideas for IMAP email hosting?

Here's what I decided to do.

Per a recommendation from someone on dpreview (before the thread was deleted for reasons I don't understand), I found http://www.fastmail.fm and, after evaluating a trial account, decided to go with them and I'm very pleased. I signed up for their highest level of service, pointed my domain to them and now have everythnig I was looking for (speedy fast IMAP and a web interface). They also have all the extra things I was looking for (very good anti-spam filtering, server-side email filters -they even let you write custom scripts for complicated server-side filtering logic - and they give you 1GB of file space for web pages or file storage).

Belg

I like harelink.biz... ran 3 seperate entire projects with em

jdryan3

Too bad you need IMAP. I use Network Solutions e-mail service (even has https:) and love it. But no IMAP. :cry
Also Safari doesn't use html editor, only IE 5.5 or higher. Not sure about Firefox, but I doubt it.

meatloaf

jfriend wrote:

If Google Apps had IMAP, I'd probably go that way. As it turns out imap.gmail.com is a live server (you can ping it) so maybe it's being worked on.

I use IX Web Hosting to host customers of mine that have small, simple (HTML and/or Flash) web sites. They are reliable and decent tech support. They support everything you ask except SPAM checker and very low cost.

Alternatively, SPRY offers VPS service which inlcudes SPAM too, but way more exepnsive and but you dont share server space with hundreds of others like on a shared server. Spry is great to work with too.

Hope this helps.

Dusty Sensiba

Ditch Network Solutions
Network solutions is a ripoff. Get rid of them ASAP.
$35/year per domain
$17.95 for linux hosting
And they were slow. My sites loaded like frozen bovine fecal matter.

On godaddy I pay less than 10 bucks per domain and hosting is $6.95/month.
And it's fast.

I have google apps for domain on my sites and I'm pretty happy with it.

What do you need IMAP for?

jfriend

Dusty Sensiba wrote:

What do you need IMAP for?

If you haven't followed this thread, I've already found a great solution and I'm happy with it with http://www.fastmail.fm.

In answer to your question, I use IMAP to allow email access from multiple different computers in an efficient manner (all state stored on the server, folders, junk mail filtering, server-based filters, etc...), particularly in environments where web access doesn't work well (offline for airplanes, mobile access over a poor network, etc...). For example, I can access my personal IMAP email account from my mobile handheld, my work PC and my home PC and have the exact same view everywhere. I know some people use web-based mail for that, but I don't find web mail nearly as capable or productive as thick clients (like Thunderbird or Outlook) and it's particularly unproductive for me on mobile devices with a slow network.

Anyway, my problem is now solved for at least awhile.

StevenV

a reason to revisit Gmail, it looks like IMAP's coming very soon. [edit: it's here ]

personally I redirect all my mail through gmail; 1) it doesn't matter if I use their web-based interface or my (currently POP) mail client, 2) all my mail's kept in their archive in case my client blows up, and best of all 3) I don't get any SPAM, their filter "just works."

BradfordBenn

Here is the release from the Google Blog

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/free-imap-for-gmail.html

Free IMAP for Gmail
10/24/2007 06:12:00 AM

dangin

IMAP for gmail is slow to get rolled out. it looks like they maybe starting with newer accounts. mine's pretty old (2004) and it hasn't trickled down to that one. can't wait till this does eventually get to all gmail accounts.